In today's Gunsmoke episode, originally aired 5/29/65, an old buffalo hunter claimed to have had many jobs. One of which was fixing Studebaker wagons.
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Would that be Season 10, Episode 35; "The New Society"?Originally posted by rbisacca View PostBrad Johnson,
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Episode identified incorrectly. Correct episode is:Originally posted by rockne10 View PostHe Who Steals. Episode 36, May 29, 1965.
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Death Valley Days which runs on cable TV had a show on about John Studebaker and how he got started making wheel barrows in the gold fields of California (I think) but eventually had to go back to South Bend because of a family emergency and never left. Family started building wagons there. Fiction I'm sure but probably based on fact as many of those episodes are.Comment
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If I recall correctly, John left the family business to go to California and make his fortune, I believe Hangtown, which is now Placerville. He saved up a good amount of money and then either something happened in the family or he was just ready to come back and he invested in the business, and that’s when it took off.Originally posted by E. Davis View Post
EDIT: I looked it up and found this
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Back in the mid to late nineteenth, the Studebaker Repairman was kind of like the Maytag repairman today, lonely. Those wagons were built very well. Now Climax might have kept him busy.Home of the famous Mr. Ed!
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Not a mention, but an actual Studebaker!
Just watched the episode “Miss Kitty” first aired on October 14, 1961, with Kitty driving a farm/freight wagon with Studebaker painted on both sides. Black & white film but the lettering looks to be a bright color, mebbe yellow or gold?Comment
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Many of the Gunsmoke TV episodes used as much as possible of the scripts that were written for the earlier radio version. On at least two of the radio shows, ranchers were confirmed as being wealthy by their ownership of a "big Studebaker wagon". This might be the TV version of one of those shows. The writers probably assumed that there were still enough people around who knew that Studebaker had been the Rolls Royce of wagon-makers.Skip LackieComment
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This was a one hour show & I seem to remember that the radio based (really almost verbatim) TV shows were all the earlier half hours?
The wagon itself had the look of a survivor.Comment
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All the Gunsmoke radio shows were half hour. The first few years were without sponsor, so maybe 26 minutes of content. Later ones had a sponsor and had two ads during the show. I assume a 26-minute radio script could be expanded to fill a one-hour TV show that had 4 or 5 ads.Skip LackieComment
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In a similar vein, and in the movie Barbarosa starring Willie Nelson, the co-star tells someone else to take the Studebaker (referring to the wagon).Studebaker! If you're lucky enough to own one, you're lucky enough!!!
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